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FOOL’S GOLD     ―     wip introduction.

status: outlined, drafting

words written: 5k give or take

genre: fantasy, young adult

themes: cyberpunk, romance, death

warnings: discussions of mental illnesses in detail, triggering backstories perhaps and deaths. like a lot of deaths. no guarantees.

    In ignorance, wedged between the monochrome buildings in the reeking underbelly of West Beverly, sits Neil Rosende smoking a cigarette and contemplating many things at once. A few hours from him is the girl who will change his life and a few more hours from that is a game that will end it. But for now, he takes a long drag and tramples the butt of that cigarette beneath the sole of his shoes. There are three kinds of people, he thinks. The good, the bad, and the in-between.

    Eighteen hours, twenty-six minutes and thirty seconds from this lies the moment national champion Dane Sefta realizes two things: one, the game she has grown up playing has vowed to kill her and two, that these people — the good, the bad, and the in-between — have one thing in common:

   Revenge.